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Fedora 18 will support secure boot on Windows 8 PCs |
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Written by Wayne
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Sunday, 03 June 2012 03:10 |
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The folks behind the popular Fedora Linux operating system have good news and less good news for open source software enthusiasts. The good news is that they’ve come up with a method that will make it easy for anyone to install the next version of Fedora on hardware designed to run Microsoft Windows 8 without disabling the secure boot features Microsoft is insisting hardwaer makers include. The bad news is that the method involves Fedora paying a one-time $99 fee for a digital signature from Microsoft. This will allow Windows 8 computers with x86 processors and secure boot enabled to recognize and boot Fedora — but it will make a lot of other things more complicated. Users that want to develop their own kernels will either have to add support on their own firmware, or pay for their own $99 digital signature if they want to distribute those custom kernels. Drivers for graphics cards and other hardware could also need to be signed...Learn more by visiting windows8newsinfo forum.
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